The Skills Academy has been established with the combined vision of making India a true “Knowledge Economy” by bringing credible investment in the job related skills, and aims to provide employment opportunities to youth across the country, thus, making them job ready. They aspire to enhance workforce effectiveness by leveraging in-depth industry experience to develop innovative skills and training solutions along with a sustainable impact to the industry and society. Their vision is to build a scalable, for-profit Skills and Livelihood Development business that significantly enhances earning capacity and thereby creates social impact. They work holistically with the 3C’s – Communities, Colleges and Corporates. At The Skills Academy, have designed “Science of learning” combined with an industry proven toolkit. This helps to match student aspirations with necessary skills required by the industry, build domain experts, enhance industry-academia partnerships, provide “paths to progress” through continuous education and skilling and build strong placement networks.

They have trained and placed over 500 learners in the last 8 months across geographies catering to the employment needs of a wide range of industries including Banking, BPO, Hospitality, Quick Service Restaurants, and Retail. Astric has partnered with Skills to commence the "STAR" Scheme under the National Skill Certification and Reward Scheme branded as the STAR (Standard Training Assessment & Reward) Scheme has been formulated to encourage skill development for youth by providing monetary rewards for successful completion of approved training programs. It aims to increase productivity of the existing workforce and align the training and certification to the needs of the country. To provide Monetary Awards for Skill Certification to boost employability and productivity of youth by incentivizing them for skills training. Reward candidates undergoing skill training by authorized institutions at an average monetary reward of Rs.10,000 (Rupees Ten Thousand) per candidate. Benefit 10 lakh youth at an approximate total cost of Rs.1,000 Crores.

Vocational Courses from BELTRON

The objective of signing an MOU with BELTRON was to provide training for building capacity for the officials of various government departments and individuals in various IT and non IT domains for enhancing their skills accruing direct and/or indirect benefits to all government employees identified and nominated by Bihar State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd. We proposed to impart training in the domain of Tally related Accounting, Communicative English, e-Learning, Soft Skills modules, Personality Development and various Employability Enhancement programs by class room presentations, practical demonstration, projects designing and supplying course ware which enhances the prospects and inducts special skills in individuals as well as group dynamics at our Center of Excellence Infrastructure through our skilled manpower and various technology and knowledge partners. All those government employees who wish to avail training programs are facilitated as per the Modules packages provided in the training annexures by their respective departments. Notwithstanding B.S.E.D.C Ltd. and CoE take the decision to launch new courses from time to time depending upon the requirement and market justification.The cost is borne under Government schemes which has provisions of capacity building.

Astric works as a technology cum training partner jointly with B.S.E.D.C Ltd., and has tie ups with various leading ICT, IT, Communication and knowledge partners like Hewlett Packard India Private Limited (HP), LiqVid eLearning technologies, Tally Solutions Private Limited, IMTAC ICT, Touchstone technologies Pvt. Ltd., CSM Technologies Pvt. Ltd., NComputing, Microsoft Corporation, Adobe India, SAS, Cradle Technologies Ltd., LG Electronics and many more all of which hold expertise in their respective domains to help and assist in the technology transformation and capacity building initiatives for overall development of our state Bihar.

Vocational Courses from NIESBUD

NIESBUD is an apex body under the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises , Government of India for coordinating and overseeing the activities of various institutions/agencies engaged in entrepreneurship development particularly in the area of small industry and small business. The Institute which is registered as a Society under Societies Registration Act, 1860 (XXI of 1860), started functioning from 6th July, 1983. The policy, direction and guidance to the Institute is provided by its Governing Council whose Chairman is the Minister of MSME.

The Executive Committee consisting of Secretary (Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises) as its Chairman and Director General of the Institute as its Member-Secretary, executes the policies and decisions of the Governing Council through its whole-time Director General. NIESBUD is an apex Institute in the area of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Government of India. The basic objectives for which the Institute has been established are: Promotion and Development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises including Enhancement of their Competitiveness through various activities.

We are partner Institute of National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development is a premier organisation of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, engaged in training, consultancy, research, etc. in order to promote entrepreneurship. The major activities of the Institute are Training of Trainers, Management Development Programmes, Entrepreneurship-cum-Skill Development Programmes, Entrepreneurship Development Programmes and Cluster Intervention. NIESBUD has provided training to 10,94,529 persons as of March 31, 2017 through 41,483 different training programmes since inception. This includes 4,080 international participants hailing from more than 141 countries throughout the globe.

Till now we trained over 2000 candidates in different trades coded by NIESBUD.

Astric Solutions is established in 2011 and registered under Small Scale Industries of Government of Bihar and National Council of Vocational Training with specialized focus on Retail, Infrastructure and ICT Solutions. We have the HP World Outlet on the Baily Road and S.P. Verma Road for retail operations in Patna. For ICT solutions, we also tie-ups with various leading ICT Giants like Tata Consultancy Services, Center for Development of Advance Computing, CDAC, Pune – An autonomous Institution under Department of IT, GOI, Siemens and HP Education Services. Astric Solutions is a sister concern of Astric Computers (I) Pvt. Ltd. established mainly with planned involvement in Software Development, G2G/E2E/G2C/B2C/B2G Solutions in mind. Web Development, Non Voice BPO operation, cloud based innovative solutions, working on big data for transformation in citizen centric service area etc.

Our prime focus remains however is towards Education and Training Domain, Capacity Building, Skill Enhancement and building Entrepreneurship Development with special focus on under privileged masses, youth employment and Women Empowerment. A core team of more than a dozen professionals, academicians and industry experts assemble daily at our office managing the activities and have been involved in training government officials for many line line departments for Government of Bihar and also for Central University of Bihar and won national award in a short span of few years.